Memorandum attachment for telephones.



No. 786,733; v PATENTED APR.4,1905.' J. w. GURRIER. MEMORANDUM ATTACHMENT FOR TELEPHONESI APPLICATION FILED JAN.11, 1905.

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No. 786,783. PATENTED APR.4, 1906.

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MEMORANDUM ATTACHMENT FQR TE,LEPHONE$.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. rsepeau ted April 4, 1905.

Application filed January 11,1905. Serial No. 240,644.

To all whom it may concern/.-

Be it known that I. JOHN W. CURRIER, a citi zen of the United States, residing at Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Memorandum Attachments for Telephones, of which the following is a specilication.

The invention relates to an improvement in memorandum attachments for telephones, and particularly to .a new and improved tabletholder designed formore or less permanent connection with hand or desk telephones. As is well known, such telephones comprise a cylindrical barrel rising from a circular base and carrying the usual receiver and transmitter. 'It has been heretofore'proposed to provide a memorandum attachment for such telephones; but all such structures with which I am familiar are arranged so that they interfere with the ordinary stability of the telephonet hat is, the construction is such that in use the tendency is to overbalance the tele phone, causing the same to tilt from its base and for which disadvantage such structures have been found impracticable from a. commercial standpoint.

It is the object of the present invention-to so construct the tablet-holder and arrange its connection with the telephone that pressure upon the tablet in the holder incident to use will not in the least affect the stability of the telephone, thereby rendering the device eminently practical and .useful.

Afurther object of the invention is to provide the tablet with means to permit the ready severance of one or more of the surface leaves of the tablet when desired and to arrange the severing means so that its use reference being bad to said accompanying.

drawings, in which- .Figure 1 1s a perspective vlew illustrating the attachment of my invention to a desk-telephone. Fig. 2 is a transverse section through the tablet-holder.

the tablet-holder, the supporting-arm being broken off. Fig. 3 is a perspective View of Figp lis a bottom plan view of the tablet-holder, the supportingarm, partly broken off, being shown in posi tion thereon. Fig. 5 is a plan illustrating the supporting-arm and .means for attaching same tothetelephone-barrel. Fig. 6 is a view in elevation illustrating a modification of the invention.

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents a telephone, preferably of the type commercially known as a hand or desk telephone, comprising a barrel 2,-designed to support the usual receiver and transmitter, and a base 3, supporting the barrel.

My improved tablet-holder, which is particularly designed for more or less permanent attachment to the barrel 2, comprises a boxlike structure 4;, having a base 5, ends 6, and one side 7, the opposite side of the boX being open to permit the insertion of the tablet. The side 7 and the upper end 6 are respectively provided with integral right-angled lips 8 and 9, projecting from the upper edges of said side and end and extending within the plane of the box, as clearly illustrated in Fig. 3. These lips 8 and 9, hereinafter termed cutters, are designed to receive and clamp the tablet within the box, the free edges of I said lips being beveled or sharpened to a cutting edge 10 to provide for the severance of the tablet-leaves, as hereinafter described.

The supporting-armcomprises a rod-like member 11, designed to be secured to the I telephone-barrel 2 and to the tablet-holder 4.

At the point of connection with the telephonebarrel the arm 11 is secured to a semicircular strip 12, having cars 13 projecting from its free ends, the arm 11 being preferably secured to said strip intermediate its ends, as shown. A second semicircular strip 14:,l1ZLV" ing ears 15, is arranged to cooperate with the strip 12, said strips 12 and 14 completely encircling the barrel 2, with respective ears l3 and 15 abutting, bolts 16 passing through said abutting ears and securing'thc arm 11 to the telephone-barrel.

Beyond its connection with the strip 12 the arm 11- is of a contour to follow and rest upon the base 3, so that said arm rests throughout 1 its length upon s 'd base and is directly supported at all points by said base. The free end of arm 11 is flattened at 17 and attached to the tablet-holder on the lower side of the base 5, preferably about the longitudinal center of said bottom. The upper surface of the projecting" member 17 is inclined from the horizontal, so that the tablet-holder is supported in the inclined position conveniently adapted for writing. it will be noted that the arm 17 is connected to the tabletholder at about midway between its sides, so that a considerable portion of said holder will overlie or project inward beyond the circumference of the base, whereby to further insure the stability of the telephone when the tablet is in use.

The holder 4: is designed to receive a tablet 18, the tablet being introduced through the open side of the holder,with one side and end clamped and held beneath the lips 8 and 9. In securing the holder to the projection 11' it will be noted that the lips 8 and 9 are at the top and side adjacent the telephone for a pur pose hereinafter described. After use of the upper sheet of the tablet the same is grasped along the edge remote from the telephone and severed from the tablet by being elevated from the bottom adjacent the lips 8 and 9. As the lip 8 is next the telephone it follows tl at the strain incident to severing the paper will. be brought nearer the center of gravity oi. the telephone, and thereby reduce to a minimum the possibility of overbalancing the teie ihone. ihirthermore, those portions of l "reeves the tablet left beneath the lips and 9 after severance of the successive sheets: will operate to hold the tablet in place as ellectivcly as if the full tablet were in the holder.

in the modification illustrated in Fig. 6 the connection of the arm 1'1 with the strip 12 is shown as a hinge-joint 19, whereby when desired the holder and tablet may be turned up into contact with the telephoneiarrel toproride for the convenient storage of the device or the concealment of data on the tablet.

lilaving thus described my inrontion, what i: claim as new, and desire to seen re by lint tors Patent, is

1. An attachment for telephones comprisinga tablet-holder and an arm projecting from said holder and secured to the telephone, said arm bearing on the telephone-lmse from its attachment to the telephone to the edge of the base.

2. The combination with a telephone having a base and a barrel rising thcrel'rmn. of a tablet-lmldcr having an integral lip on the side adjacent the telephone to clamp the tab-- let in place, the free edge of said lip acting as a cutter, and an arm secured to the tabletholder and to the telephone, said arm bearing on the telephone-base from its attachnwnt to the telephone to the edge of the base.

in testimony whereof lailix my signature in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

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